UNT @ the 2025 National Digital Newspaper Program Awardee Meeting

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On September 29 and 30, 2025, Tim Gieringer and Ana Krahmer represented UNT at the National Digital Newspaper Program’s Annual Awardee Meeting.  This meeting, hosted by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, marked the 20th anniversary of the National Digital Newspaper Program, while UNT marked its eight award round. In… Read more »

2025 Rescuing Texas History Awarded

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The Portal to Texas History is excited to announce the awardees for its 2025 cycle of the Rescuing Texas History program! Each year, the Rescuing Texas History program offers up to $1,000 of digitization services to applicants. The materials the awardees share with the Portal come from a variety of places including libraries, archives, museums,… Read more »

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded UNT Libraries $216,859 for an eighth consecutive round of the National Digital Newspaper Program

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National Endowment for the Humanities: A More Perfect Union

Special thanks to Spencer Houghton, the NDNP graduate student assistant, for his help in editing this announcement. UNT Libraries are pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress (LC) have selected us for an eighth, two-year cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This award, which comes to… Read more »

Portal to Texas History Collection Highlight: The Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition Photos

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This post was written by Varda Khan, who worked for two semesters as a Student Assistant – Descriptive Metadata Writer in the Digital Projects Lab. Varda recently graduated from UNT with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Art History and minors in Arabic and Business Computer Information Systems. What is the Dallas Museum of… Read more »

Texas Historical Commission Grants the 2025 Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation to The Portal to Texas History

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Certificate naming Benjamin B. Peck the Clerk of the County Court in Gonzales County, Republic of Texas.

In April 2025, the Texas Historical Commission selected the University of North Texas Libraries’ Portal to Texas History to receive the 2025 Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation, described by the Texas Historical Commission as, “The Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation recognizes . . the highest achievement in the preservation of Texas’ prehistoric and historic heritage.”… Read more »